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Date: Friday, 14 Jun 1991 09:48:08 CDT
From: <U10215@uicvm.uic.edu>
Message-ID: <91165.094808U10215@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,news.newusers.questions
Subject:    Uncompressing *.tar(shar) files on PC's


Dear Sir:

Is there any way of getting *.shar (tar).Z files to a PC from ftp sites
and uncompressing some available utilities?

What I know is DOS support only one file extension (fn.tar) not two file
extensions (fn.tar.Z)?

I transferred fn.tar.Z file to my PC as fn.tar and untarred it; it didn`t
work at all.  Can you recommend some solutions?

Your help or suggestion in this problem is highly appreciated.

Sung T. Kim
(312) 996-8928


P. S.) Is there any complete documentation about uncompressing
files (tar, shar, tar.Z, arj and so on) on PC's ?